Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan saved the harassed legislators one headache by bowing to near unanimous advice from Republican congressional leaders that his proposal to shift the final 10% installment of his three-year income tax cut from next July to January had no chance of passage. In spite of that retreat, the President showed that he retains plenty of backstage clout. His friend and close Senate ally, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, led a successful drive to remove Oregon Senator Bob Packwood from chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Packwood played a major role in helping engineer the reelection of every Republican...
...spite of all its efforts, Washington, ironically enough, may be backing the wrong contras. "They are making the biggest possible mistake," observed a leading opposition figure of the Sandinistas in Managua. "The Nicaraguan people are first anti-Somocista, and only secondly anti-Communist." It is commonly believed that for the contras to succeed, a considerable number of Sandinista soldiers would have to enlist in the cause. One of the few men who could make that happen is Eden Pastora Gómez, 46, a popular hero of the Sandinista revolution who grew disenchanted with the revolution and fled Nicaragua...
...spite of continuing controversy over Nestle's general marketing policies in the Third World, the company's removal of the infant formula cleared the way for return of its products to North House...
...spite of his image concerns, Harvard experts said say de la Madrid would be wise to rely on his MPA training. Womack calls his task of reinvigorating the Mexican economy, now in its worst recession in more than 50 years, "very much like the kinds of stuff you learn how to do in the Kennedy School...
...West Germany, in 1973, Brezhnev kissed her hand and said, "You are the first person I am going to invite to Moscow." Cozying up beside her on a sofa, he promised that "all Moscow will lie at your feet," as a gaggle of diplomats listened with fascination. In spite of his flirtatious ways, he enjoyed a stable relationship with his wife Victoria, and he doted on his three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Son Yuri is a foreign trade official, and Daughter Galina is married to a high Ministry of Interior official...